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Nexus of Employee Stock Ownership with Cost of Capital: Evidence from KSE 100
This study investigates the effect of employee stock ownership on a company's cost of capital. It takes employees into great consideration and tries to overcome the agency conflict that exists within the company by adopting the employee's stock ...
Fareeha Waseem +2 more
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ABSTRACT In emerging economies where smallholder farming dominates agricultural production, agribusinesses serve as critical intermediaries linking smallholders to broader markets, and their resilience directly affects agricultural sustainability. Short‐term‐oriented capital is reluctant to adequately finance highly uncertain and cyclical agricultural ...
Siyuan Lyu +5 more
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Audit Committee’s Characteristics and the Cost of Debt
Abstract Objective This paper examines the association between audit committee characteristics and the cost of debt, with the aim of gaining new insights on how this corporate governance mechanism contributes to the reduction of debt costs.
Santos, Inês Borges +2 more
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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture
Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff +2 more
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Abstract Longer‐duration, holistic, cohort‐based, coach‐led interventions may be particularly effective in promoting both economic health and emotional well‐being among unmarried mothers living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Aligning with the 1999 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) framework for program evaluation, this study presents a ...
Jennifer Langhinrichsen‐Rohling +5 more
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Fiscal Activism and the Cost of Debt Financing [PDF]
ABSTRACTIn this paper, we estimate the impact of changes in fiscal policy regime on the yield curve. In particular, we differentiate between yield curve responses under active and passive fiscal policy regimes (according to the terminology of Leeper (1991)). Analyzing US data in the period 1965–2010, we find a statistically significant impact of fiscal
Hans Dewachter, Priscilla Toffano
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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Contingent Convertible Debt: The Impact on Equity Holders
Contingent Convertible (CoCo) is a hybrid debt issued by banks with a specific feature forcing its conversion to equity in the event of the bank’s financial distress.
Delphine Boursicot +2 more
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ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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